Word: companionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frequently expressed criticism of Hopkins has been that he is even more an incorrigible optimist than even Mr. Roosevelt himself, and that it would be better if the President has as his intimate companion a man more inclined to emphasize the dark spots in the war picture...
...Itagaki and lean, handsome General Nishio made a perfect army team. They drank great quantities of sake together, Itagaki growing garrulous and gay, Nishio sour and taciturn on the gently powerful wine. They shared two of the controlling passions of the Japanese army: a hatred of Communists and a companion hatred of Japan's great capitalist families (the Mitsuis, Iwasakis, Sumitomos and Yasudas) on the twin grounds that their abuses fostered Communism and that they disputed the mastery of Japan with the army. When others laid an indiscreetly heavy hand upon the princes of money, Itagaki soothed the offended...
...often happens in personal crises, Joe Grew's large distress was accompanied by small discomforts. The Japanese had allowed no dogs on the Asama Maru and the Ambassador had been obliged to leave behind his four-year companion Sasha, a white spitz...
Pondering reasons for the drive's widespread flop. Ickes snapped: "We suspect that people are hoarding rubber and maybe even people in official life are hoarding." His companion. Bill Boyd of the Petroleum Industry War Council, shook his head, too: "If there had been heavier hitting on the part of the public...
...Plot. Hemingway and his traveling companion, Anthony Jenkinson, found in a "snoop cruise" through the Caribbean that a German ship supposedly fishing for shark in pre-war days had charted scores of spots where subs could be refueled "as easily as Mrs. Jones takes in groceries." They named operators of bulging oil depots at strange places. They told of pro-Franco Central Americans openly working for a German victory; of Germans, including one ex-army officer, busily preparing for Nazi submarine activities. Even in 1940 small fortunes were being made by schooner masters on Nazi payrolls...